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Category: Insecta

Podabrus conspiratus

June 3, 2023 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

This is the handsome soldier beetle that I mentioned coming to my lights in the blog ‘First Mothing Trip of…

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Posted in: Animals, Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles), Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Podabrus, Species Profiles Filed under: Podabrus conspiratus

Plathemis lydia (Common Whitetail)

May 30, 2023 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

As I mentioned in ‘Evolution of a Recreational Naturalist – 10,000 Things of the Pacific Northwest ‘, it was finding a…

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Posted in: Animals, Anisoptera (Dragonflies), Insecta, Libellulidae (Skimmers and their kin), Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies), Species Profiles Filed under: Common Whitetail, Plathemis lydia (Common Whitetail)

Raglius alboacuminatus

May 28, 2023 Dan Nelson 4 Comments

This small, handsome member of the family Rhyparochromidae (dirt-colored seed bugs) is apparently sometimes called a tuxedo bug, which seems…

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Posted in: Animals, Hemiptera, Heteroptera (True Bugs), Insecta, Plants, Raglius, Rhyparochromidae, Species Profiles Filed under: Raglius alboacuminatus, Tuxedo Bug

Cychrus tuberculatus (Tuberculate Rare Snail-eating Beetle)

May 26, 2023 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

This carabid beetle was yet another great find by my grandson Lee on our trip to the confluence of the…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Carabidae, Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Cychrus tuberculatus, Tuberculate Rare Snail-eating Beetle

Cosmopepla lintneriana (Twice-stabbed stink Bug)

May 22, 2023 Dan Nelson 5 Comments

Whilst photographing the Pacific poison oak featured in the last profile I encountered this rather striking twice-stabbed stink bug (which is…

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Posted in: Animals, Cosmopepla, Hemiptera, Heteroptera (True Bugs), Insecta, Pentatomidae, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Cosmopepla linteriana, Twice-stabbed Stink Bug, Two-spotted Stink Bug, Wee Harlequin Bug

Pristoceuthophilus celatus

January 28, 2023 Dan Nelson 2 Comments

I cannot be absolutely positive that this camel cricket, (family Rhaphidophoridae) which I found under a chunk of bark in…

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Posted in: Animals, Ensifera, Insecta, Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, and their allies), Plants, Pristoceuthophilus, Rhaphidophoridae, Species Profiles Filed under: Pristoceuthophilus celatus

Zelus tetracanthus (4-spurred Assassin Bug)

January 13, 2023 Dan Nelson Leave a comment

It’s really obvious how much my life has changed during my 13 years of sobriety when I say that the…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Hemiptera, Heteroptera (True Bugs), Insecta, Reduviidae, Species Profiles, Zelus Filed under: 4-spurred Assassin Bug, Zelus tetracanthus

Parcoblatta americana (Western Wood Cockroach)

December 3, 2022 Dan Nelson 6 Comments

The best critters that I personally found on my day of exploring with Sam McNally (although he did find the…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Blattodea, Ectobiidae, Insecta, Parcoblatta, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Parcoblatta americana, Western Wood Cockroach

Pidonia scripta

November 5, 2022 Dan Nelson 10 Comments

This is the last thing I’ll be posting for the next ten days or so. I’m heading off to s…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles), Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Pidonia, Plants, Species Profiles Filed under: Pidonia scripta

Ortholeptura valida

October 21, 2022 Dan Nelson 6 Comments

For a lepturine longhorn beetle (family Cerambycidae) that is supposedly common (I’ve found Ortholeptura valida before, one watershed to the west from…

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Posted in: Animals, Arthropoda, Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles), Coleoptera (Beetles), Insecta, Ortholeptura, Ortholeptura, Species Profiles Filed under: Ortholeptura valida

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